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The Allianz Arena erupts as the ball breaks to Franck Ribery in the box, who puts it into the back on an empty net, but the joy is short-lived as the players look up to see the assistant referee's flag held up, and the goal is disallowed.




Bayern get the breakthrough! Toni Kroos whips in a ball from the left and Thomas Mueller stoops at the far post to plant home a header via the crossbar.​
 


Drogba brings down Ribery in the box and the Portuguese referee points to the spot. Penalty!



Robben steps up to take the penalty for Bayern...




...but it is saved!! Petr Cech, who kept out Cristiano Ronaldo's spot-kick in the 2008 final shoot-out, guesses correctly and stops Robben's penalty.




It is 3-3 in the shoot-out when Bastian Schweinsteiger steps up, and the German international misses having hit the post


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Extra-time can't separate the sides so the game will be decided on penalties. Lahm scores for Bayern but Juan Mata has his penalty saved.




The German side take heart from their keeper pulling off a save from Mata's kick.




David Luiz, Frank Lampard and Ashley Cole make no mistake from the spot for the Blues and after Olic misses, Bastian Schweinsteiger is then denied by Cech.​
 


But it's written in the stars that Didier Drogba should step up to score the winning penalty for Chelsea.




The Ivorian calmly sends Manuel Neuer the wrong way...




...and wild celebrations follow, that's it, Chelsea claim their first Champions League title and qualify for next season's tournament. ​
 
Hongera sana chelsea kwa kuchukua mwali ila mpeeni timu coach RDM.Na mkataba wa miaka 2 Didier Drogba kama hongera yao kwa kutwaa kombe hilo
 

Di Mateo is simply a genius !
 
Hongereni sana wakuu wa mtaa huu...Mie nimefurahi sana leo maana sikupenda kabisa jinsi Drogba alivyokuwa treated na owner na management ya Chelsea kwa kumkatalia kumpa 2 years contract extension as he requested na badala yake walitaka kumpa extension ya mwaka mmoja tu ambayo alikuwa hayuko tayari kusaini. Kwa performance yake ya leo anastahili contract extension for at least 4 more years 🙂🙂....hana uwezo wa kukipiga kwa 90 minutes lakini experience yake ni tishio kwa ngome yoyote ile duniani. Wale Tottenham WARIE tu maana kwa ushindi wa leo wa Chelsea nafasi waliyoipata kwa kumaliza katika nafasi ya nne ndio imekwenda na maji.
 
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.....indeed Lampard...DROGBA is a hero



20 May 2012 Last updated at 00:20 GMT

Drogba's belief key to Chelsea's Champions League gloryBy Mandeep Sanghera BBC Sport
If anyone deserved a Champions League winner's medal it had to be Didier Drogba and, in leading Chelsea to victory over Bayern Munich in the final of Europe's elite club competition, he had earned it.

After all the heartache and agony of defeats in one previous final, three semi-finals, one quarter-final and two last-16 rounds, the Ivory Coast striker clinically scored the decisive spot-kick in the penalty shoot-out at the Allianz Arena to famously erase all those previous scars.

The red card against Manchester United in the 2008 final , the tirade into the television camera after a controversial defeat by Barcelona, as well as a penalty shoot-out loss to Liverpool, Drogba's pain on the Champions League stage has been hard to enough to watch let alone endure.

Drogba's highs and lows during his Chelsea career


  • 2004-05: Drogba's 16 goals help Chelsea win their first top-flight title in 50 years. He also scores the winner in the League Cup final.
  • 2006-07: Becomes the first Chelsea player since Kerry Dixon to reach 30 goals in a season, including two in the League Cup final win over Arsenal and the winner in the FA Cup final against Manchester United. He is named African player of the year.
  • 2007-08: Expresses a desire to leave Chelsea following the departure of Jose Mourinho, but later says he regrets the comments. Becomes leading scorer in League Cup finals with consolation goal in Chelsea's loss to Tottenham. Involved in controversy over alleged elbow on Man Utd's Nemanja Vidic and accusations of diving by then Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez. Sent off in the Champions League final, which Chelsea lose on penalties to Man Utd.
  • 2008-09: Banned for three matches for throwing a coin into a section of Burnley fans during a Carling Cup defeat. Labels referee Tom Henning Ovrebo a "disgrace" during a foul-mouthed tirade to TV cameras after his side's Champions League exit at the hands of Barcelona. Scores his sixth goal in major cup final as Chelsea beat Liverpool to win the FA Cup.
  • 2009-10: Wins Golden Boot for his 29 goals that help Chelsea win the Premier League.
  • 2010-11: Drogba contracts malaria, but makes full recovery. Named in Time magazine's 100 most influential people for role in peace process in Ivory Coast.
  • 2011-12: Scores his seventh goal at Wembley in FA Cup semi-final win and becomes first player to score in four FA Cup finals in win over Liverpool. Scores equaliser and winning penalty in the shoot-out as Chelsea beat Bayern Munich to win the Champions League.

Despite being a player who has consistently delivered for Chelsea, as his nine goals in nine finals are a testament to, the glory of lifting the trophy of Europe's top competition had always eluded him in a manner where it just did not seem to be.

Drogba, though, maintained the faith. And, on a glorious night in Munich, his crusade reached a successful end.

Accused of being an "actor" by some because of his theatrics, this time he put in a performance more in keeping with the power and poise which has made him such a feared opponent for defences.

He scored with a bullet header to equalise against Bayern before converting the crucial penalty for Chelsea's victory.

The man himself put the success down to divine intervention.
"It was [fate]," said the 34-year-old, whose penalty to clinch Chelsea's victory may be his last kick for the Stamford Bridge outfit. "I believe a lot in destiny. I pray a lot. It was written a long time ago. God is wonderful. This team is amazing.

"I'm very happy. Life is fantastic."

Drogba started out on the Champions League road by scoring on his debut in the competition for Marseille in a 4-2 defeat at Real Madrid in September 2003.

Seventy-five appearances and 39 goals later and he could look at the Champions League winners' medal adorned around his neck with a sense of fulfilment and achievement that he had conquered the peaks both on the European and domestic stage.

A tribute to Drogba's determination and resolve, he was a periphery figure seemingly on his way out of Chelsea under former boss Andre Villas-Boas during the first half of the season.

But, as has so consistently been the case during nearly eight years with the Blues, he came to their rescue when the club needed him most.

"Didier Drogba has been the best centre forward of his type, certainly in the Premier League, for the past eight years," former Manchester United defender and Sunderland manager Steve Bruce told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"It could be his last appearance but I sincerely hope it isn't because he's still got something to offer, as we've seen. He is a big player for the big occasion.

"If they're going to replace him, how are they going to replace him?

"He has been quite fantastic, year in and year out.

"It's quite fitting that he got the equaliser and it's quite fitting that he got the penalty if he is going to bow out.

"When you're sitting in a dressing before a big cup final, you can turn round to him and know he's going to show up and be the big player that he is.

"And that's what makes the great players.

"He dives over and falls over at times but when the big trophies are there he can certainly produce."

While there is plenty to admire about Drogba's qualities on the pitch, it is a tribute to the 2006 and 2009 African Footballer of the Year that he uses his fame to try to bring peace to his native Ivory Coast.

He is one of the 11 members of Ivory Coast's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and, although his team-mate Frank Lampard was talking about his value to Chelsea, he also summed up what he means to so many.

"He is a hero," Lampard said.
 
leo chelsea wajivuni kweli kweli......hongera Invisible..mganga mliyempata chelsea mzimuache.....
 
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